:06:02
When Professor Challenger is finally ready,
perhaps I might continue?
:06:06
Carry on, Professor.
:06:11
The very word dinosaur,
meaning "terrible reptile", tells us...
:06:16
...this is a vertebra from a creature
known as Iguanodon bernissartensis.
:06:24
Behind me is an artist's impression
of the iguanodon,
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which stood on its hind legs
in the manner of a kangaroo.
:06:31
Oh, come on! A kangaroo?
Are you sure? Have you ever seen one?
:06:37
Don't be absurd!
No one's ever seen a dinosaur.
:06:41
(LAUGHTER)
:06:42
The great size of these creatures
was paradoxically their weakness,
:06:46
for the dinosaurs could not compete
with the smaller and more agile mammals.
:06:52
Where's his proof?
:06:55
The proof is that we are here and dinosaurs
are remarkably thin on the ground.
:06:59
(LAUGHTER)
:07:02
Professor Summerlee...
:07:05
...I wonder if you would be kind enough
to identify something for me.
:07:11
I will take questions at the end.
:07:14
(CHALLENGER) I'm sure you will.
Let's have a look at this first.
:07:21
Now...
:07:23
...what do you make of that?
:07:30
It appears to be
a remarkably well-preserved fossil
:07:34
of the forearm of a pterosaur,
a flying reptile of the Mesozoic period.
:07:40
But it isn't a fossil, is it?
:07:45
There's something up here.
Make sure you get all this down.
:07:49
Must be a fake.
:07:52
Clever, undoubtedly, but a fake.
:07:56
This bone came from an animal...